Romantic Secrets #19

A young woman inherits her father's radio parts factory and is persuaded by her fiancé Kenny to hold onto it for six months until a promising new manager can increase its value—but when she meets the manager, Brian Rabell, a dynamic and intelligent man with genuine passion for the business, her carefully laid plans begin to crumble. As Brian's devotion to the factory deepens and his feelings for her grow, Helene finds herself caught between the dreams she made with Kenny and the unexpected pull of something far more real.

When Connie arrives at a college reunion, she's painfully aware she's the only one who never married—until she meets Lennie Woods, a charming man who mistakes her for her younger brother's sister. Desperate to keep his interest, Connie reinvents herself as a carefree teenager, ditching her dignity for jitterbugging and bobby-soxer enthusiasm. As their romance deepens and Lennie grows more serious about their future together, Connie faces a mounting tension between the woman she's pretending to be and the truth she's hiding.

Ann loves Bert and dreams of a better future for him, so she convinces an old admirer to help get him a job as a salesman in the city—a chance that Bert seizes with genuine success. But when Ann visits him at the elegant sales office, she discovers something that troubles her: the boss's secretary is in love with him, and Bert himself seems transformed by his new world in ways that shake her confidence. Now Ann must grapple with what she's set in motion, and whether the man she pushed to climb higher is still the man she loves.